RE: CFEclipse 1.2
For some reason, Eclipse isn't seeing that an update is available. I can just install 1.2 manually, but I just wanted to check to see if others were experiencing the same thing. Thanks, Christian -Original Message- From: Patrick Burm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFEclipse 1.2 http://www.cfeclipse.org/go/project/downloads You can also use the eclipse update feature, register a remote site using http://www.cfeclipse.org/update ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215017 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Ajax and CFCs
CFCs can be invoked directly through the XMLHttpRequest object as long as the CFC support remote access. I tend to cache my components and access them through a controller/proxy which can also be easily done via Ajax. And finally, you can easily call CFM pages directly which return either HTML or XML (the XMLHttpRequest object supports both). You don't need any third-party products. Ajax and ColdFusion go very well together as-is. You can see an example of integration here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/reports/categoryFeedReport/index.cfm Christian Hi, Do you know any example on how to integrate an AJAX web interface with ColdFusion Components? Do you know any good AJAX client/server library with ColdFusion support? ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215025 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: CFEclipse 1.2
That worked for me. Thanks. Christian I was having the same problem. I removed the old site and added the new one linked to http://www.cfeclipse.org/update. Then it found the update fine. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215028 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
MySQL 4.1 and UTF8
For some reason, I'm not able to get the UTF8 character set to work properly with MySQL 4.1. I'm specifying the character set when creating my tables, but any non-latin character comes out as a question mark. I had this working fine in previous versions of MySQL, but 4.1 isn't cooperating. ColdFusion seems to be handing the encoding well, but not MySQL. I am using the INNODB engine, so I'm wondering if that's the problem, but MySQL is not returning any error messages -- just garbage. Any ideas? (After sending this, I'll try it w/o INNODB to see what happens, but I don't think that will fix it.) Thanks, Christian ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195471 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: MySQL 4.1 and UTF8
Very close! The parameters below actually have to be included in the JDBC URL, like this: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/databaseName? useUnicode=truecharacterEncoding=UTF8 (I'm using a newer driver than then one that shipped with CFMX 7.) Thanks, Christian On Feb 18, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Barney Boisvert wrote: Try putting this useUnicode=truecharacterEncoding=UTF8 ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195484 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFMX7 and DevNet
Hi, Cutter. Let me see if I can help: 1. It's true that each developer using the development server needs to have his or her own DevNet subscription. 2. The scenario you mention below is definitely legitimate. One of the advantages of the development server is that other people in the company, and even clients, can keep an eye on development. (As long as they aren't actually writing code, or technically QAing the system, no problem.) 3. Now back to your main point: unfortunately, I don't have an answer, but I do have a contact for you. I recommend emailing your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That goes directly to DevNet business owners, so you will get a quick and accurate response. Feel free to email me personally if you don't hear something back in a reasonable amount of time. Thanks, Christian On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Cutter (CF related) wrote: I don't remember this restriction (not that it matters much in my organization). A more important advantage for us was the ability for any of the 7+ members of our management staff could pull up a site in development from their desktop and gage it's progress without having to be at a specific workstation and without us having to place that developing site on a production server with our hosting provider. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193826 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CF7 MySQL question
On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:10 AM, Ian Winter wrote: Hmm, OK. I saw Steven's post when it came out. I'll go back and have a re-read. Would be nice to know why it didn't ship though. I'll save some of you the Google search: http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm? mode=dayday=03month=11year=2004 Christian ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193828 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFMX 7 is released
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Rick Root wrote: I'm sure that Macromedia realized that the vast majority of developers are using windows machines or have access to a Windows machine, even in worlds where they deploy to Linux, Solaris, etc.. That's correct. Ideally, we would release Report Builder applications for all platforms, but we figured it made more sense to just get it right on a single platform, and for obvious reasons, that platform had to be Windows. I can't imagine a web development operation without some Windows machines around, at least for testing if nothing else. Christian ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193391 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: The Death of DevNet :-(
On Jan 5, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Ben Rogers wrote: I still have yet to receive anything from Macromedia notifying me that program was being phased out. They have my e-mail address. They have my mailing address. Do they need a blood sample before they'll tell me what the heck is going on? Emails were sent out over the last couple of days to all DevNet subscribers. Anyway, I really really really encourage you guys to send feedback and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the right people are on that list. All we can do on cf-talk is post URLs to information on the website which you guys have probably already seen. Thanks, Christian ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189391 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: ot: contacting MM
On Jan 4, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Adrocknaphobia wrote: Hes scheduled back in 'early Jan'. Ed is back next week. If you don't hear anything by the end of the week, feel free to email me personally and I'll make sure you get your software. Thanks, Christian ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189393 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: The Death of DevNet :-(
On Jan 4, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Alex Sherwood wrote: Any idea why MACR would do this? Macromedia is consolidating subscription programs. Right now, there is MVLP (Macromedia Volume Licensing Program), DevNet, Studio, and subscription programs that we have taken on through acquisitions. It's confusing for customers and expensive for Macromedia. It's like code re-factoring, but in a business/sales sense. You should be able to find answers to all your questions here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/subscriptions/ Any issues that are not answered on the Macromedia website can be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189280 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: (ot - admin) advertisers
I'd definitely join and participate. Christian On Jan 2, 2005, at 11:23 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: Actually, based on the interest people have brought up, I've got a general question for people here. If there was a list that handled SEO, Advertising and other site business things, would you both join and post? We have a huge amount of people on HoF and there has to be a lot of info here that can be shared. This all came up due to an off list discussion with someone here about their site and what they make in non-google type ads. Really shook me. ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189149 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CF Poll with Flash interface
On Aug 4, 2004, at 9:22 AM, Andy Allan wrote: You can buy DRK5 and get Pollster 2, which is of course what Christian uses. Yup, that's what I use, and it works great.You can read more about Pollster 2.0 here: http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/ volume5/coldfusionmx.html You can buy DRK 5 for $99 here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm? event=displayProductcategoryoid=254579store=OLS-US Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: someone has to know this... MACROMEDIANS, anyone...cfdump 3rd post
On Jun 11, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Tony Weeg wrote: yeah, the hotfixes, and its not just one of them, it's them, it's the directory. I tried renaming everything with an _1 at the end, and the cfdump didn't work, so I new it wasn't the files in the directory. then I renamed the directory with an _1 at the end, and GUESS WHAT? it works. Very strange, Tony.I'm getting ready to quit for the day, but I'll take a look in the morning, and pass this along to some engineers if I can't find anything.Has anyone else every had problems dumping a cfcatch struct? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CF access to NT Performance Stats?
On Jun 8, 2004, at 12:40 PM, Mark W. Breneman wrote: Is there any way for CF access the info that the NT performance (perfmon.mmc) displays? Have you looked at the getMetricData function?It has a mode attribute which can be set to perf_monitor.I don't have a Windows server set up, but according to the docs: Returns internal data, in a structure.To receive data, you must enable PerfMonitor in ColdFusion Administrator before executing the function.On Windows, this data is otherwise displayed in the Windows PerfMonitor. You can read more here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/ funct103.htm#wp4099518 Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Date Bug in CFWDDX
On May 24, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: CFWDDX action="" has a bug Thanks, Mark.I will report this issue. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SOT - Last nights NYCFUG meeting.
On May 20, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: What is this all about now? PDF's from CFML? Easily? Me likee, want to hear more Here's your chance.Ben, Tim and Dave Gruber will be presenting at 12:00 PM Pacific (3:00 PM Eastern).Just go to the URL below: http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/r36158305/ Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: ANNOUNCE: WorldWide Macromedia User Group meeting, sneak peaks and Community week.
On May 12, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Irvin Gomez wrote: If history is any indicator, 4/5 of whatever they announce will be garbage. What history?Did you attend this session at the last MAX conference on Salt Lake?It was very widely attended, and definitely one of the coolest sessions. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: why? are we different?
On May 11, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Larry White wrote: The hotfix kind of works. On my developer's edition, which is single user Enterprise, it worked. On my production server, Professional 6.0 upgraded to 6.1, it doesn't. You're saying that you applied the exact same hotfix to two different servers -- one development and one production -- and it works in one place, but not the other?Can you confirm that the hotfix was picked up in your production server's classpath? Why am I not surprised? I certainly am! Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Named anchor
On May 10, 2004, at 7:37 AM, Pascal Peters wrote: Is it possible to find a named anchor passed in the url (if there is one) in ColdFusion? I don't think there is a way.The named anchor (anything after the hash symbol in a URL) does not get sent to the server, and therefore does not show up in variables like CGI.SCRIPT_NAME. If you really need it, you might have to do something like this: http://localhost/tests/index.cfm?anchorName=foo#foo The anchor name is then available as the value of the variable url.anchorName. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: flash remoting books
I recommend Tom's book, as well.I worked on the ColdFusion section, so I know it's comprehensive.:) Christian On Apr 12, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Dave Carabetta wrote: Sorry for the crosspost all . . . I know that Tom Muck's book Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide has gotten solid reviews. I looked at it in a bookstore once and it seemed pretty comprehensive. I just don't do much with remoting, so I can't give you any real world feedback. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059600401X/104-8416979-6521558 Regards, Dave. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: ...just took 60+ seconds to load Hello World in Flex!
On Apr 9, 2004, at 4:04 AM, Samuel R. Neff wrote: The overhead will be addressed as soon as Flex supports runtime shared libraries. With this then the classes only have to be downloaded once. I would say that RSL are critical to the success of Flex, but it's really strange they weren't made a high-enough priority to be included in 1.0. I'd expect to see them in a 1.x or at least a 2.0 release. BTW, runtime shared libraries are on the Flex Roadmap.From the Flex Technology White Paper: In the core technology, Macromedia will continue to add features in the short and longer term. In the short term, users will benefit from features like runtime shared libraries, component templates, and additional themes... You can find the entire white paper here: http://macromedia.com/go/flex_tech_wp Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: ...just took 60+ seconds to load Hello World in Flex!
On Apr 8, 2004, at 11:25 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote: btw, is there a way to get rid of the loading message that appears with the rendering of each FlexFlash page? You can set the usePreloader attribute of the Application tag to false like this: mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml usePreloader=false You can also customize it using the preloader attribute. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: ...just took 60+ seconds to load Hello World in Flex!
On Apr 8, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Samuel R. Neff wrote: The second run should be significantly faster, but still a lot slower than a Flash Hello World app since every app will have the 130kb of Flex base classes. Small applications requiring little interaction can still benefit from the look and functionality that Flex provides, but as Sam points out, they are going to be significantly larger than their Flash or HTML equivalents.Medium to large applications, however, which are more interactive, start to benefit very quickly from a bandwidth perspective from the Flex application model.It's not unusual for pages on sites like Amazon or eBay to be anywhere from 60K to 90K in size, not counting external assets like images, style sheets, scripts, etc.It only takes one or two clicks before you are actually saving significant amounts of bandwidth with Flex. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: RIA options, Flex Flash and others.
On Apr 7, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Dick Applebaum wrote: I for one was/am critical of the Flash RIA as not being good enough -- resulting in a heavy or sticky feel to the UI. That's all well and good, if Flash can deliver acceptable performance -- if it can't then I will look elsewhere for RIA solutions. It just isn't fast enough to be usable, especially when you consider the amount of client resources it consumes to attain poor UI performance. My particular criticism is with the expanding and collapsing of the folders -- where only client-side RIA processing is performed, I actually don't find the performance to be all that bad.Your XUL example is obviously much faster, however as Sam pointed out, that's not really a fair comparison.Additionally, I don't think XUL is a very viable solution given the size of the audience that it addresses. Performance is your point, however, and not ubiquity, so I will say that although I find the performance of Flex applications to be quite acceptable, Macromedia is fully aware of the importance of performance as it relates to our RIA strategy.I obviously can't get into specifics, but I will say that performance is a big priority at Macromedia. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flex not?
On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote: Has anyone done this? Just about all the Flex development I've done so far has been on a Mac. It works great.Dave's explanation is correct.Here are the details: 1. Create a flex directory in JRun4/servers/default 2. Copy the flex.war file into the flex directory and unjar it. 3. Optionally copy the samples.war file into the flex directory and unjar it. 4. Restart your server. 5. Make a request like: http://localhost/flex I got the war files by installing Flex on a Linux box first.I'm sure you can get them from a Windows installation, too. Note that this is not supported, but it seems to work very well. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: RIA options, Flex Flash and others.
On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Whittingham, P wrote: Is the 'slowness' done on purpose or by accident. I've created Flash reports which render instantly and some 'slower' for effect? Is this for 'effect'??? I guess the best way to say this is that the animation is obviously done on purpose, which is slow enough to be perceptible.Any sluggishness or jerkiness you might see is not intentional, if that makes sense. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flex is out
On Mar 31, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Whittingham, P wrote: The main problem I have with flex and flash mx 2004 is the size of swf file. The download times suffer even on an intranet. What kind of file sizes are you seeing?We have seen that typical Flex applications are around 100K to 150K.Typically, they achieve the majority of their size very early on, then tend to plateau since assets are shared very efficiently across components.150K for an RIA might seem hefty at first, but actually, it isn't.I pulled up an arbitrary eBay page the other day that was 87K *without* images.The Amazon home page is about 63K, again without images.Once all the images and other external assets have been fully loaded, both these pages are far larger than typical Flex applications, and you have to load that amount of data with every page refresh as opposed to just loading data with Flex. I actually believe that Flex applications are much more bandwidth efficient than comparable HTML applications. I tried your flex sample and they are slow. MM needs to address performance. I agree with you there.The online examples are not performing like they should, and not how I am seeing them perform locally.We're actually looking into this to see what's wrong.Thanks for the heads-up. Also, MM needs more components like maps/graphs and reports. Agreed.From the Flex FAQ: Q: Does Flex include charting components? A: Charting components for Flex are currently in beta. To be notified aboutparticipating in the Flex charting components beta program, pleasesign up for the Flex Newse-mail list. I'm sure other frequently requested components will follow. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: FLEX: are you HERE or are you NOW?
On Mar 31, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Scott Weikert wrote: Now is it just me, or does that paragraph simply NOT answer the question it's associated with? How does offering it only on CD have anything to do with support? I think this question has been pretty well covered by responses form Dave and others, but just to reiterate and summarize, we would like to try to make sure that the people who are evaluating Flex right now are serious potential customers so that we can provide them with as much support as possible.(Yes, this is subtly implied in the FAQ rather than explicitly stated.)Of course, charging $8.99 for the trial is no guarantee, but it will help to reduce the noise.The $8.99 obviously does not cover support costs, but it can at least help to keep them under control. I also want to mention that there was a misconfiguration in the Macromedia online store that was causing international customers to be overcharged for the trial.Apparently that has been fixed.Please let me know if you discover otherwise. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flex is out
On Mar 31, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Morgan Senkal wrote: Thanks for the clarifications, Christian. One question tho: I have checked out the samples explorer, and the one thing that I find lacking as far as an example is accessibility - an issue of extreme importance in my shop... On the features page, Flex claims to be accessible, my question is how? And I would like to see it! This is something I actually don't know much about, but there's a whole Flex Accessibility center on our website: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flex/ Let me know if this material doesn't answer all your questions, and I'll see if I can dig up more information. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: FLEX: are you HERE or are you NOW?
On Mar 31, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Peter Tilbrook wrote: How do I get 'Flex' and can I download a trial? - Yes you can but at the same time no you cannot. I had to say pay up or order the CD-ROM. You cannot download it from an easily accessible site just yet (if ever). Here is information on why the Flex trial is only currently available on CD: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/#item-36 But for $15.00 or more Australian dollars you may get it on CD eventually. Anyone who orders the CD will receive one promptly. And that is pretty much how Macromedia are treating their international customers at the moment. Pay up or give up. The trial is only available on CD for all customers, not just international ones.What do you mean? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flex is out
I've been traveling recently, so I wasn't able to address these Flex-related posts as they came in.In the interest of efficiency, rather than responding to each post, I've aggregated the main points here: I predict that Macromedia is going to sell off ColdFusion within the next 2 years. Their product portfolio is too diversified and their customer segments have very little in common - Flash, ColdFusion, Director, Fireworks, Breeze, and now Flex - very different developer communities. We absolutely have no plans to sell off ColdFusion.I don't know to say it any more plainly than that.Macromedia is very dedicated to ColdFusion as I think we will demonstrate with Blackstone.One of the primary focuses of CFMX was obviously the port to the J2EE platform which demanded significant resources.These are resources that we have been able to dedicate to innovation with Blackstone.I think you will like what we have planned. FORGET flex! Go Laszlo! If you are considering Flex, it only makes sense that you will want to consider Laszlo, as well.Make sure you thoroughly understand the capabilities and limitations of each product, and make sure you fully understand each product's pricing.Contact Laszlo Systems for information on their enterprise pricing (it's not posted on their site), and make an educated decision.By no means do we expect Flex customers to be ignorant of Laszlo. Maybe just another go nowhere Spectra product chasing tumble weeds... I've seen this statement in a few different places, and all I can say is that Macromedia is extremely dedicated to Flex and to RIAs in general.Although we know that traditional HTML-based web applications aren't going anywhere for a very very long time, we also believe that RIAs present huge opportunities for our customers, and Flex is key technology for supporting those customers.I'd also like to add that discontinuing products that are not performing where we need them to is not a shameful thing.I think it's amazing how Macromedia experiments with so many different technologies, and is willing to take chances. Macromedia is constantly investigating, playing with and investing in new technologies, many of which never see the light of day, but that's what it takes to be a technology leader.That said, however, we feel very very good about Flex and the opportunities it presents. Flex... 1) Is an alternative way to create swf files Generating SWF files is only one thing Flex does.It is certainly the functionality that gets most of the attention, but it does a lot more. See the Flex Features page for more details: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/features/ 2) Offers nothing new to the Flash Client (I.E. with enough time; you couldbuild anything created in Flex through other means ) It's true that Flex does not extend the capabilities of the Flash Player.The fact that Flex applications run inside the existing Flash 7 player is a significant portion of its appeal, in fact.It is also true that you could build Flex-like applications using just Flash, and if that's efficient for you, than it makes sense just to stick with the Flash authoring tool.Take a look at a sophisticated Flex application, however, and ask yourself how long it would realistically take you to build and maintain it with Flash versus with Flex. I'm willing to bet you could do it in-house for less. If you can, then you should.But again, get to know the technology and what it's capable of.Working for Macromedia, I have obviously been exposed to Flex throughout its development cycle, but I can honestly say that I was absolutely amazed with the finished product and what it is capable of doing.I'm not too bad with Flash, but I couldn't imagine building an extensive Flex-like application from scratch at this point.Its capabilities clearly set a new standard for RIAs. That said, if Flex can't save you enough time and/or resources, or present enough opportunity, than it's simply not right for you. ...while Flex is no doubt cool, it would be a tough sell convince a client to pony up $12K when UI development in either Flash or HTML would be far less than that. Obviously, the pricing is enterprise level. Again, you have to do the math.Figure out: 1. If you think your business can benefit from a Flex application. 2. If so, how long (in man hours) would it take you build it without using Flex. 3. How much return do you think you can get from rewriting your application with Flex. 4. Do the math and compare the end result to $12,000. Just like any other business decision, it require careful analysis. what are the advantages of using Flex, when price is obviously not one of them. I would encourage you to visit the Flex product page, view the sample applications, and install and experiment with the Flex trial.I think the functionality that Flex applications bring to the web, and the Flex development paradigm, speak for
Re: Flex is out
On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:05 AM, Rob wrote: Well I am running FireFox on a Debian linux box so I doubt you are running that - and I doubt it is a supported setup anyway. That explains it.Flex requires Flash Player 7, which has not yet been released for Linux.It will be out shortly, however. Still, shouldn't be getting 404s, though.I will report it. Thanks, Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: More on Laszlo
On Mar 16, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Dave Carabetta wrote: Laszlo does not have an IDE that I see. They assume you'll use another IDE to code your Laszlo applications (which is fine by me). Macromedia has already started working on a MXML (the language that Flex uses) IDE codenamed Brady.I think that anyone who wants to write MXML will be very interested in what Brady has to offer.Very cool stuff. More info: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/#item-12 Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Question about Macromedia DRK subscription.
On Feb 20, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Ciliotta, Mario wrote: I was wondering if anyone has subscribe to the DRK's. I was wondering if you could tell me are they worth the cost. I should probably defer to others since my opinion might not be completely objective.:-) I am interested in the CF content and the Flash content. Also does anyone know if there are plans to include some JSP content or maybe JSP tags that CF developers can use. We haven't really given much thought to JSP custom tags simply because we have been focusing on ColdFusion custom tags and components.If there appears to be a demand, we will certainly consider it.We have included a few very nice Java projects, however, with ColdFusion custom tag wrappers.The thinking is that they would appeal to both ColdFusion and Java developers. Have a look at the DRK home page for more information on content included on the current and past DRKs: http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/ Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Security Documentation
On Feb 13, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Richard Crawford wrote: I'm looking for some good websites dedicated to issues of security for Cold Fusion and JRun. Anyone got any suggestions? I don't know of any sites dedicated to ColdFusion security, but here are several good resources on Macromedia's site: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/security.html Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
Well, in the interest of putting this thread to bed, let me try to wrap things up by saying that when Sean comes back, I will discuss this issue with him.Although I don't have a problem with Macromedia's web team using Mach II or Sean contributing to Mach II development, his actions should not be interpreted as an official Macromedia endorsement of any one project over another. Christian On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: I understand the tradeoff. I'm just saying that MM is big enough with enough money and skilled programmers to write some of the tightest, fastest, most optimized code around if they wanted to. The extra few dollars to make the code 'fast but inflexibility' (it really isn't inflexible, it's just specific to the needs of the MM site) is worth it to avoid what started this entire thread. To have anyone see an error on a website, let alone for there to be an error in the first place is just not acceptable (in my mind when thinking of a multi-million dollar internet software company). There is almost always a trade-off between flexibility, abstraction, etc. and performance, but one typically tries to strike the right balance between the two extremes. The right balance typically falls between the cost of extending and maintaining a fast but inflexibility application, and the cost of having to throw hardware or other optimizations as a slow but highly configurable application. I'm certain Sean's team understands this equation and has made their decisions accordingly. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Philip Arnold wrote: No disrepect meant here Christian, but there are a few of us here who are of the opinion that MM selecting MachII to use on their site is a glowing endorsement of the framework Point taken.I was referring specifically to the statement that Macromedia screwed up by using Mach II.My impression is that very few people actually have a problem with this, however I also acknowledge that we should be more clear about the fact that we are not officially endorsing any particular project over another.When Sean gets back into town, I will discuss this with him. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote: Macromedia.com is *not* built in Mach-II. The Dylan65 project was released well in advance of Mach-II emerging as a framework. Mach-II is being used for some specific point-applications on the website. Thanks for bringing this up, Geoff.This is a very important point. Mach II is something the web team experimented with, found increased their productivity, and now uses for some projects.It is NOT the framework used for Macromedia.com. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Angus McFee wrote: Macromedia would be better off using no framework at all. Let's face it, a framework is just a loosely connected group of ideas anyways, that offers a temporary development efficency until something new comes along. I guess frameworks mean different things to different people. Personally, I can't imagine building any application without some sort of framework, even a very small and lightweight one.I have found that frameworks (not specifically Mach II, but frameworks in general) make development much more efficient, and applications easier to extend and maintain.However, this should not be interpreted as a Macromedia endorsement for frameworks in general.:) Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Just slightly
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Doug White wrote: The link returns a Internal Server Error Get rid of the trailing dot from the URL.Worked for me. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 8, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: Boy-oh-boy. Where to start? Macromedia should want to support everything and anything that the CFML community produces, but of course it is impossible to support everything. Therefore, they shouldn't support anything in particular. We have chosen instead to support the community and contribute where we can.If that sets us apart from Sun, so be it. I think Sean Corfield's coding standards document is a perfect example of where a useful contribution has turned into something else entirely. Has this document had some sort of negative impact that I'm not aware of? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 8, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: The fact they are using a particular framework implies that they choose it as opposed to other frameworks because it was the best. The DRK is another example of where they screwed up as it implies the same thing; that what they ship in the DRK is best of breed. I think this is another example of where *you* believe Macromedia screwed up.You appear to be in the minority, however.As I've written in the past when you have said that Macromedia should be ashamed of itself for the DRK, we are actually proud to both accept and solicit contributes from the Macromedia development community. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 8, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: Do you not remember all the flak about Google vs. Verity when it Macromedia.com's rewrite used Google instead of Verity? I remember that the majority of that flack came from you, just as you seem to be the only one on this thread who has a problem with Sean's team using Mach II.I think you have made your opinion abundantly clear.I'm sure Sean and his team will give it due consideration. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 8, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: If in this case, MachII was the best solution then the community would certainly benefit from understanding why that was the case. If not, many will just assume that is the case, which benefits no one except for the people behind MachII. Perhaps Sean needs to make it more clear that his team's decision should not be considered an endorsement from the company he works for. Sounds fair enough.I'm sure he will be happy to clarify the situation when he gets back. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia.com running on top of Mach II
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: The problem with every framework that exists is that it has to be generalized. It is almost totally non-specific because it has to be used on site A, site B, etc. This leads to code that may work but is not the tightest, fastest or even the most optimized for the site. MM should be going the tight, optimized, elegant code route. Instead they're going the 'mass production' route. They should be beyond that point. There is almost always a trade-off between flexibility, abstraction, etc. and performance, but one typically tries to strike the right balance between the two extremes.The right balance typically falls between the cost of extending and maintaining a fast but inflexibility application, and the cost of having to throw hardware or other optimizations as a slow but highly configurable application.I'm certain Sean's team understands this equation and has made their decisions accordingly. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: jRockit
On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Kwang Suh wrote: CFMX comes with and uses the IBM JRE, not Sun's. JRun and ColdFusion use Sun's JRE. IBM's can be found here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/index.html Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: What could be wrong with this code ? Any expertise on this please??
Can you verify that all queries fail as opposed to just this one?For instance, can you run a simple query like this? SELECT * FROM SQL_PERS_DATA Should we be focusing on your query syntax, or should we be looking at a potential driver problem? Christian On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Ian Vaughan wrote: I have set up a connection to an IBM universe database through Windows Administrative Tools ODBC Datasource Administrator, this pings and tests correctly... [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: jRockit
On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Michael Wolfe wrote: Can anyone tell me more about jRockit? I don't know about JRockit in particular, but I do know that there are faster JVMs out there than Sun's.I used to get very good results with IBM's.It's strange that Sun doesn't make the fastest JVM, and that Java does not run better on Solaris than on other operation systems, but it's true. If you get ColdFusion working with JRockit, let us know what it's like. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OpenXCF
Both of these projects look very interesting.I look forward to following their development, and hopefully contributing, as well. Christian On Feb 2, 2004, at 7:55 PM, Simon Horwith wrote: I suppose I should say more about the project I've begun... [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: How to Pass Varibles on Multipage Form?
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 04:28PM, Justin Jefferson wrote: I'm working with a multipage survey (3 pages) and I'm trying to figure out how to pass the survey answers over the multiple pages. I highly recommend using the session scope as others have suggested. That way, users can back up and refresh, and their data is still preserved. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: randomize()
On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 03:24PM, Tony Weeg wrote: does randomize do anything for randRange(), or ONLY for rand() Here's a lot more information than you probably wanted to know: http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/004256.cfm Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: randomize()
They should be passed in.The hardcoded zeros are defaults which actually result in the next() function returning any number within the range of an integer.The component is meant to be used like this: cfset rng = createObject(component, com.macromedia.util.Random)/ cfset rng.setBounds(1, 52)/ cfoutput#rng.next()#/cfoutput You can also do this... cfset rng.setSeed(getTickCount())/ cfset rng.nextBoolean()/ I think I would create in instance during your initialization routine (probably in your Application.cfm file), stash the instance in a persistent scope, and use it like this: cfoutput#application.rng.next()#/cfoutput You can also reset the bounds at any time without having to create a new instance. Christian On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 10:54AM, Tony Weeg wrote: so do you hardcode your min/max at the top of the cfc? you don't pass them in right? tony [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: log visit time?
On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 02:32AM, Emmet McGovern wrote: Anyone know of a simple way to keep track of the total amount of time a user is logged into an application for? Two ideas.One is to explore javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener. HttpSessionBindingListener is an interface with two functions: valueBound and valueUnbound.An implementation can be used to catch notifications of when a session is created or cleaned up.I've never tried this in ColdFusion, and in fact, I'm not even sure it's possible, but it's worth pursuing.In the J2EE world, this works great. My second idea is much easier and will certainly work.Rather than trying to measure the time between login and logout (since you never really know when someone has stopped using your app unless they explicitly log out, which you cannot count on them to do), measure the time between login and the users last request.Store the current time at login-time (inside your CFLOGIN tag, possibly), then record the time on every request after that (use the session scope to make the time user-specific).The total time logged in will (approximately) be timeOfLastRequest - loginTime. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 06:28PM, Matt Robertson wrote: But I hope someone smacked themselves on the head and at the very, *very* least said Oops. Lets try not do *that* again! when the realization hit that this change was undocumented and unannounced (assuming I am not incorrect on that score) I haven't been able to find it documented anywhere, so you're right.I will make sure the appropriate person smacks himself on the head. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 11:06PM, Taco Fleur wrote: What's the best way to start/call a process in CF and not wait for it to finish? I tried once to write a CFTHREAD tag (that spawned a new Java thread in which some task would be performed), but it managed to eluded me. Sounds like a good candidate for a future version of CF, unless someone else has some ideas on how to do it. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish
On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 01:22PM, Andre Turrettini wrote: make it an attribute of a cfc? Give it its own scope and perhaps an optional callback function. Maybe cfevent and cfcallback. That would be nice if used properly. Just because its complex doesnt mean it should be avoided. A callback was exactly what I had in mind.I can't remember what ultimately stopped it from working, but I remember getting close then hitting a brick wall.Maybe I'll try again sometime with a fresh perspective. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SOT: How to set a file upload input box to readonly.
On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 05:52PM, Ciliotta, Mario wrote: Does anyone know how to make a file upload input box read only. If you go with one of the _javascript_ solutions recommend by others, make sure you test it thoroughly on all browsers.I seem to recall that some browsers don't allow any access to file inputs via scripting for security reasons.The danger is that someone hides a file input (through various techniques) and populates it with the path to a common file using _javascript_.If the user were to submit the form (or the form were submitted via JS), the user's file would be stolen. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT radio button validation
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 01:04PM, Robert Orlini wrote:
Anyone have a quick _javascript_ code top check if a certain radio
button is selected then a input field must have content?
Here's a two minute solution:
html
head
script language=_javascript_
function checkForm()
{
var f = document.myForm;
for (var i = 0; i f.paymentmethod.length; ++i)
{
if (f.paymentmethod[i].value == cc)
{
if (f.paymentmethod[i].checked f.ccNum.value
== ) //maybe replace with an RE
{
alert(Please fill in a credit card
number.);
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
return true;
}
/script
/head
body
form name=myForm checkForm()
Purchase order: input type=radio name=paymentmethod
value=po/br
Credit card: input type=radio name=paymentmethod
value=cc/
input type=text name=ccNum/br
input type=submit value=Submit/
/form
/body
/html
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Re: Finding JavaMail version
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 02:00PM, Michael Wolfe wrote: How do I determine what version of JavaMail CFMX is running? Also, how can I update it to a newer version (if one is available)? Here is the top of the MANIFEST.MF file from mail.jar: Manifest-Version: 1.0 SCCS-ID: @(#)javamail.mf 1.4 00/09/26 Extension-Name: javax.mail Specification-Title: JavaMail(TM) API Design Specification Specification-Version: 1.2 Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Implementation-Version: 1.2 Implementation-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Implementation-Vendor-Id: com.sun I think this means that ColdFusion is using JavaMail 1.2.To update it, replace mail.jar with a newer jar file.Don't forget to back up the old one.:) Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 10:18AM, Tyler Clendenin wrote: My main problem with this is that if you send to a query and it throws an error it stops mid e-mail and does not rollback or anything it only sends out the first percentage of the e-mail before the bad e-mail address. Do you mean if you pass a query into the CFMAIL tag?That's the price you pay for convenience.If you have validated all your email address on their way in, use this feature with confidence.If you have not, then loop through the query manually and either validate or catch errors.Sometimes the most convent solution is not the most appropriate for your needs. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 02:54PM, Tyler Clendenin wrote: so you see no forseeable performance issue with looping over using the query? I wouldn't think so.I would guess that's what is happening internally anyway.Perhaps Tom can clarify. also does the validator follow all rfc822 standards such as quoted identifiers. I'll leave that for Tom to answer. and in clarification, this behavoir is a new improvement and not a bug? Yes.We realize that the behavior is inconsistent with previous versions of ColdFusion, however we believe the new behavior exhibited by CFMX is preferable.Sorry for the difficulties it has caused with your code, but I think once you have completed the required re-factoring, you will find that your application is actually more robust. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Can any one do this?
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 03:18PM, Phillip B wrote: Anyone think they could do this or know of some one that provides this type of service? With Flash Communication Server, this type of application (streaming audio and/or video) is fairly straightforward: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/ The first time I played with Flash Comm, I wrote a video chat application in about 30 minutes.The server and components do all the hard work.All you have to do is use the API. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
I'm checking with the engineering team.I'll let you know what I hear. Christian On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 11:14AM, Matt Robertson wrote: Well, it was about time... Finally upgraded my CF 4.5 server to 6.1. Had minimal problems, and really nothing unexpected, except for this one showstopper: Previously, if you tried to send cfmail to foo@ bar.com (note the space) or foo@@bar.com or somesuch, cfmail would just dump it into the undeliverable folder and soldier on. Under 6.1 it crashes the application. Now, we all know the GIGO rule about data, but try telling that to a large client with an equally large membership they can no longer send mail to as a group. I've written an email validator, and added a lot of processing overhead to the mail service, but I've still taken a big black eye over this. Something this obvious has been reported, right? Or is it taken for granted now that CFMAIL breaks on this? I can only find minimal mention of this (one post on some guy's forum) on Google and nothing at MM, although I may be missing it. Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com image.tiff [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 11:14AM, Matt Robertson wrote: Previously, if you tried to send cfmail to foo@ bar.com (note the space) or foo@@bar.com or somesuch, cfmail would just dump it into the undeliverable folder and soldier on. Just to verify what I think everyone has already figured out, the current behavior isn't a bug.When you said the application was crashing, I thought you meant it was crashing the application server, which obviously would have been big bug.It seems ColdFusion is throwing an exception, instead, indicating that the email address is invalid, which was a deliberate change in CFMX. It looks like you have already considered several options for re-factoring your code.If you like having undelivered mail saved in a particular directory or file, you can always manually do so in a CFCATCH block.Otherwise, validation either at the time the data is entered (preferable), or at the time the data is selected is clearly in order. Sorry for the confusion. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash for Developers/Programmers WAS: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 11:07AM, Bryan F. Hogan wrote: What I want to do is replicate, my existing intranet's in flash, create a projector, install it on a users desktop and automatically pull data from my server, no html, no dhtml, no _javascript_, etc. Multiple clients, one app. I recommend that anyone considering this type of approach look very seriously at Central.In most circumstances, it's much more practical than projectors since you get a lot of great built-in functionality like auto-update, installation management and notifications. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash for Developers/Programmers WAS: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 10:14AM, Thomas Chiverton wrote: A version of Central that allowed you to specify your own application 'store' would be great ! We've actually heard this a lot and it has given us some ideas.It's great feedback.Thanks. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flashpaper Macromedia - Please
On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 09:43AM, Dan Murphy wrote: Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. For others out there, try downloading it and pass your comments along too. We'd like to get a feel for people's document format preferences and make sure we're poviding the information and tools in the formats your looking for. This thread has inspired a post and a new survey on my weblog: http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/004177.cfm If you have a strong opinion, please take the poll and I will make sure the ColdFusion team sees the results. Thanks, Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash for Developers/Programmers WAS: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 01:22PM, Bryan F. Hogan wrote: Everytime I'm about ready to pick up on using Flash something else tells me not too. SOAP and Flash almost had me convinced on starting to use Flash, then I hear something like this. I certainly didn't intend to discourage the use of Flash!I think these types of issues are to be expected when working with such new technology.Fortunately, if you know where to look, you can learn from other people's experience and avoid most of the frustration. If you decide to have a go at it, I can probably help you with any issues you run into.And I should probably clarify that I have written several Flash/CF applications that integrate through SOAP and work great.There are just a couple of issues to watch out for. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: sot: active desktop ticker
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:10PM, Ryan Mitchell wrote: I was wondering if anyone had experience making a news style ticker that a user can put on their desktop... I was thinking active desktop was the best way to do it (I'm happy enough to limit to windows), and I looked into channel definition files, but I can't get them working... Have you investigated Central?It runs on the desktop and is cross platform (at least Windows and OS X, at this point). http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/central/ Introduction to Central white paper: http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/whitepaper/central_wp.pdf Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: sot: active desktop ticker
On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 10:12AM, Ryan Mitchell wrote: How did I know you would suggest that?!! How could I not?:)I'm actually a very big fan of Central.I'd be interesting in knowing what you think of it once you get around to playing with it. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:22AM, Burns, John wrote: I haven't gotten into this a lot, but is the HTTP compression of soap an option in Flash? Their argument with the memory leak information seemed like it was pretty solidly based. I'm assuming that's just a Flash player issue? Any explanation or further education would be greatly appreciated as I'm looking into these options now. Compression addresses the verbosity of SOAP, but there are other things to take into consideration: 1. The overhead of zipping and unzipping the XML.I have found this to be minimal to negligible, but if I were basing a new project on this type of communication, I would probably do some more tests just to be certain. 2. The overhead of parsing (serializing and deserializing) SOAP requests and responses on both the client and the server. 3. The overhead in generating binary AMF responses on the server (this isn't an issue on the client because the Flash player doesn't have to deserialize AMF). My experience is that Flash Remoting is slightly faster, but I don't have definitive numbers.I would encourage anyone weighing the pros and cons of the two to set up some simple performance tests and decide for yourself.Published benchmarks and personal anecdotes have too much potential to be biased or just plain wrong. Other things to consider: 1. SOAP is obviously an open format and will make your projects more portable.For some, that's an important consideration, and for some, it's not. 2. Not all browsers support Flash Remoting.Last time I checked, Mozilla and Opera were not compatible.Hopefully that's changed by now (anyone know?), but there are always legacy browsers to consider. 3. I have found Flash Remoting and AMF to be more robust than the web service implementations I have used.I have forced myself to use web services in newer projects rather than Flash Remoting just to get the experience, and I have found bugs in both the Flash implementation and in Apache Axis which caused a lot of frustration and would have been avoided if I had used Flash Remoting.So far, I have not run into any significant bugs with Flash Remoting that I can recall. The bottom line is, as always, there is no single answer that is right for everyone.I think it's a decision that has to be made on a project by project basis.The only absolute I can offer is to encapsulate the communication mechanism enough to allow you to change your mind later on down the road. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: cfunit test suites
Here is a little test suite I used for meta testing the test suite:
cfcomponent extends=com.macromedia.cfunit.test_suite output=yes
cfscript
setSuiteName(Meta Test Suite);
addTest(com.macromedia.cfunit.meta_test_1);
addTest(com.macromedia.cfunit.meta_test_2);
/cfscript
/cfcomponent
Make a direct HTTP request to this component just like you would to an
individual test (with the method=run parameter), and the test suite
will run all the tests that were added to it.
Does that make sense?
Christian
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:53AM, Thomas Chiverton wrote:
The docs are slightly lacking in how to group test cases together into
a
suite, I've tried creating a component like:
cfcomponent extends=com.macromedia.cfunit.test_suite
cffunction name=run access=remote
cfscript
setSuiteName('Test Suite for CEO');
addTest('com.bluefinger.tests.a_test.test_checkPass_fails');
addTest('com.bluefinger.tests.b_test.test_checkVehicleTelIsFree_fails')
;
run();
/cfscript
/cffunction
/cfcomponent
but that doesn't work.
The individual test cases for each object
(http://.../a_test.cfc?method=run)
run fine.
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Re: Lightweight blog software
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 07:10PM, Matthew Walker wrote: Isn't there one in a recent devnet volume that uses xml for storage? Would that do? BlogMan.It's lightweight and implemented in CF, but alas, it's not free. http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/ volume5/ Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: real quick ot
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 04:23PM, Tony Weeg wrote: I mean I understand the theory, I love it for windows apps, but I just cant see the deal with web apps. The idea is that you release a web application with a specific set of features.You (and presumably others in your company, or perhaps clients) decide on a new set of features.That set of features gets a version number, and the development process begins.Your team starts implementing features, checking in changes as they reach milestones (CVS allows developers to work on files simultaneously and automatically merges most changes), and eventually the code goes into QA.Once QA has signed off on the new version, the source tree is tagged with the new version number (allowing you to roll back to that exact point at any time, if necessary), and the new code is installed (typically on staging, then on production at some ridiculous hour of the morning).It's also possible to branch off the main source tree to isolate certain features and changes, which is great for experimental work, and the branch can later be merged onto the trunk. Personally, I can't imagine developing without CVS.If you want a simplified form of version control for a single user, consider RCS. It's CVS without the concurrency. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Calendar Code
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 04:44AM, Mickael wrote: Hopefully someone can help me out. I am looking for some CF code for a Calendar of Events. What I am looking for is the type of calendar where the admin of the site can add HTML content via a form (with something like HTMLedit) and enter items to a calendar for a specific date. If you decide you want to roll your own, there is a calendar component on DRK 3.I used it to build a system similar to the one you are describing (it was actually a weblog, but it had similar functionality), and the calendar component gave me a big head start. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Calendar Code
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 11:19AM, Mickael wrote: What is DRK 3 sorry I have never heard about it? DRK = DevNet Resource Kit.It's a quarterly CD of components, custom tags, sample applications, etc. for several different products (ColdFusion, Flash and Dreamweaver, primarily).You can get information on DRK 3 here: http://www.macromedia.com/go/drk3 (For fear of doing too much promoting on this list, if you have any more questions, I would be happy to answer them off-list.) Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: What are ColdFusion developers doing with Web Services?
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 05:34PM, Ralph Ogden wrote: I'd especially like to know if anyone in the ColdFusion development community is even doing much with Web Services. Just about everything I write these days exposes web services for one reason or another.I've been doing a lot of RIA development, which web services are obviously perfect for.But even with 100% CF apps, there is usually some kind of functionality I want to expose through a web service.I think of it as just another application interface. Big players like Amazon, eBay and Google have all seen the benefits (both technically and from a financial perspective) of exposing web services (or at least XML APIs).I think they are here to stay, and I personally can't imagine developing applications without them, at this point. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: What are ColdFusion developers doing with Web Services?
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 12:15PM, Daniel O'Keefe wrote: What would be an example of the type of functionality you would use a web service for in this case? I sometimes like to provide a Flash front-end alternative to CF/HTML apps.I think some functionality is better expressed in Flash and some better in CF/HTML.I like to try to get the best of both worlds.Web services are a great way for Flash to hook into the CF back-end. In terms of pure CF applications: 1. I added web services to MXNA (http://www.markme.com/mxna) so that people could write their own presentation layers.(We haven't made the API public yet). 2. Community Vision (http://www.markme.com/vision) is exposed through web services which Mike Chambers leveraged for a Central application. 3. I wrote an application for internal use called Community Resource Directory which has 100% of its functionality exposed through web services.This allows the CF front end to be hosted on different servers throughout the company while I maintain the bulk of the application on an internal community server. In general, allowing communities to write their own code on top of a set of core services has a lot of interesting potential.In the case of eBay, it has translated directly into serious revenue.I don't know about Amazon and Google, but I'm guessing it will eventually bring in money if it hasn't already. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFDJ isn't exactly kicking bootay
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 01:26AM, Dave Carabetta wrote: ...and the price of the subscription is almost twice what Time magazine costs me... The last issue of CFDJ was 52 pages. Of the 52, I think *maybe* half actually had article content. I'm not sure it's fair to compare CFDJ to Time.Because CFDJ is so specialized, it reaches a relatively limited audience, which means Sys-Con cannot charge nearly what a publication like Time can charge for advertising.Generally speaking, the more specialized a publication, the more expensive it is. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFGrid, CFForm and other cf tags that use applets
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 08:41AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (AIT) wrote: Have any of you heard that Macromedia will be dropping CFGrid and other tags that are applet based (cfslider, cfselect, etc. even CFFORM!) in future versions? This was put out by someone in our company telling us that we need to recode all of our pages to remove these. I don't know of any immediate plans to deprecate these tags.Do you know where he or she got this information? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFCACHE parts of pages without cfhttp
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 02:26PM, Matt Liotta wrote: Have you ever seen an application with so many CF generated class files that the server can't even handle a request? Can you expand on this?That must have been one insanely big site. Can you share some numbers? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flashpaper Macromedia - Please
On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 01:35PM, Mike Brunt wrote: I hope someone at MM is listening. Thanks for the feedback.Indeed we are.I will pass this along.(I'm personally not crazy about PDFs in this particular context, either.) Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT Flex beta
Christophe Coenraets, the Flex evangelist, made a post this morning describing the beta process: http://www.markme.com/cc/archives/003936.cfm Hopefully this will clarify the issue somewhat. Christian On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 10:58PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: If anyone in the ColdFusion community has been accepted to the Flex beta program, could you please join the HoF Flex mailing list and just say hi. I just want to know that someone in the community has been accepted. Everyone I've talked to, including some of the top names in the community, has been rejected. I just need to know that at least one CF programmer is in on this project. It'll also go far in allaying some of the fears I've been hearing from people. Thanks P.S. Please respond on the Flex list. Thanks -- Michael Dinowitz Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet image.tiff [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT Flex beta
I'm trying to find out what criteria was used to select beta participants.When I have more information, I will post it here. Christian On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 10:58PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: If anyone in the ColdFusion community has been accepted to the Flex beta program, could you please join the HoF Flex mailing list and just say hi. I just want to know that someone in the community has been accepted. Everyone I've talked to, including some of the top names in the community, has been rejected. I just need to know that at least one CF programmer is in on this project. It'll also go far in allaying some of the fears I've been hearing from people. Thanks P.S. Please respond on the Flex list. Thanks -- Michael Dinowitz Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet image.tiff [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia launches Flex (Was Royale)
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 05:37PM, Dave Watts wrote: From my understanding, having sat through the keynote and one other Flex presentation, Flex is all just client-side code, which can interoperate with CFMX, webservices, local Java objects, and whatever else you have laying around, more or less. This is a good summary.Flex is a presentation server.You can think of Flex as a rich version of HTML with a huge amount of functionality and flexibility.Instead of generating an interface using HTML and ColdFusion, JSP, ASP, PHP, etc., you use MXML to generate Flash, then wire that interface to web services, which can be implemented in any language. It's a wild paradigm. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Eolas patent suit
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Jeff Beer wrote: My livelihood comes from developing and delivering flash-based newsletters and promotions in e-mail. When this change goes into effect, we're either out of business or facing the loss of our primary product. You don't have anything to worry about, Jeff.Users who have enabled ActiveX controls in Outlook will not be prompted before the Flash player and other ActiveX controls are loaded.Microsoft confirmed that since Outlook is not considered a browser, the upcoming changes to Internet Explorer will not affect it. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Eolas patent suit
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Nick de Voil wrote: Does anyone in their right mind enable ActiveX controls in Outlook? That's a good question.ActiveX controls are disabled in Outlook by default.Of course, that is not a result of the upcoming changes to Internet Explorer.The point that I want to get across is that nothing is changing with respect to Outlook.Whether it is a good idea to embed Flash in emails is a different question altogether. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Kevin Graeme wrote: An example of this is any site that wants to be accessible following WAI guidelines. According to the Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines, a site must still function with _javascript_ turned off at the browser. Keep in mind that Flash still works when embedded the old way.The user simply has to click OK when prompted before the Flash loads. Therefore, if you use the _javascript_ solution to cover the huge majority of your visitors, you can place your OBJECT and EMBED tags in a NOSCRIPT tag to cover the few who, for whatever reason, have _javascript_ turned off. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 01:04 AM, Matt Liotta wrote: I have an article that will be published by DevX real soon now that IMHO provides a much better solution than what is currently provided at DevNet. Since I haven't seen this particular solution, I cannot comment on it directly, however I will say that Macromedia's solution was created in close collaboration with Microsoft and is implemented in a very specific way for very specific reasons (we will be releasing more information on this shortly).In other words, there are all kinds of solutions out there that are smaller and may seem more elegant, however Macromedia believes the solutions that we have provided and will continue to provide are the safest choice for Flash developers.From the Active Content FAQ: Q: Why did Macromedia choose this technical solution? Are others possible? A: Macromedia has worked closely with Microsoft; we have created solutions that are based on information provided to us by Microsoft about how the future browser version will work. While other solutions are possible, we feel confident that the solution presented here is the most generally applicable and useful to a large audience. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news
On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 09:04 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: Of course, I'm sure that the Eolas patent dispute may put a damper on that real soon. The upcoming changes in Internet Explorer have been successfully addressed.Macromedia is very confident in our recommended solution. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Tried the other fix and it did not work either
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 04:41 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: So I tried the inline fix and it too does not work. I know that this is not MM's fault, but I am not a member of any M$ groups. This is certainly the right approach (assuming the tags get closed). It is possible that you are doing everything right and the browser is erroneouslyprompting you.The version of IE that Microsoft released yesterday is only test code, and Macromedia has actually been able isolate some configurations on which the browser did not behave as expected.We are currently working with Microsoft to help debug the browser and get the issues resolved.If your fix still isn't working, can you send me your code (or, better yet, a URL pointing to it) and information on your OS configuration? Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Active Content Developer Center
Just wanted to let people know that Macromedia recently launched the Active Content Developer Center in order to help developers prepare for upcoming changes in Internet Explorer.You can find the Active Content Developer Center here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ Active Content Update FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/faq.html Active Content Update Forums: http://webforums.macromedia.com/activecontent/ Microsoft has quite a bit of information, as well, and you can go ahead and download the Pre-Release Internet Explorer Bits for testing (don't worry -- the actual browser won't be released until early next year): http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Nesting CFTRANSACTION?
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:14 AM, Jim Davis wrote: However when I do this (as I am) from with the parents delete() method (making the call sorta recursive-like) I get the error we all know and love: Cannot nest CFTRANSACTIONS The approach I sometimes take is to have a set of components called entities which only worry about a single database table (the relationship between an entity and a database table is usually 1 to 1). For instance, I might have a User entity, and an Orders entity.Each contains functions (and SQL) for inserting, updating and deleting. Calling the deleteUser function of the User entity would often fail because of referential integrity violations if that particular user had any orders.That's where the higher-level components come in: the managers. I create a second package of components called managers which handle transactions and glue entities together.The User manager component might have a delete function which does the following: 1. Starts a transaction. 2. Deletes all of the users orders. 3. Deletes the user. 4. Commits the transaction. These types of cascading deletes can get as complex as you need them to.The key is to keep all your SQL in your entities, and all your transactions in your managers. Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Customg tag that will ring a phone
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:07 AM, John McCosker wrote: is anyone aware of a CFX tag free or for purchase that will ring a mobile phone. I have no idea if this is any help or not, but it might be worth checking out the Java Telephony API: http://java.sun.com/products/jtapi/index.html Christian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Macromedia Folks - Upgrades to MX2004?
Dave, You need to contact your sales rep. The fact that you own a subscription to Studio means you are a part of the MVLP program, and that you have a dedicated sales rep. He or she will be able to give you specific pricing information. Christian On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Bosky, Dave wrote: We have the two year subscription for Studio MX. I assume this includes the upgrades to StudioMX2004 but is there an additional fee to upgrade to FlashMX2004 professional? Thanks, Dave ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Re: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us?
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Angel Stewart wrote: I thought the purpose of Marketing a new product was to keep existing clients and gain new buyers for a product. Marketing is about awareness. Given a budget, the goal is to get as many of the right people aware of your product as possible. Do you think there are more ColdFusion developers out there who need to be made aware of Dreamweaver, or PHP and ASP developers? Christian ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
Re: cfc vs php rule of thumb
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Patricia G. L. Hall wrote: I've seen you talk about the ini way of doing things before and I thought it was an interesteing way to carry on. I'm pretty sure you've mentioned ini on your blog, but have you ever blogged its use specifically? I actually think INI files, or initialization files, are a great way to externalize simple application configuration. They are somewhere between defining variables in your Application.cfm file, and creating a configuration file in XML. For simple apps (or even complex apps that don't require a lot of configuration), they work great and are quick and simple to write and parse (using the getProfileSections and getProfileString functions). They are much less verbose than XML and more human-readable. Where you tend to run into trouble is when you try to create your own namespaces with dot notation or something as your files start to get complex. If you don't need the relational nature of XML, however, and you don't mind other developers making fun of you for not using XML, INI files are often a good solution. Christian ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Re: MX 2004 and Devnet Pro
Thanks for posting this URL, Massimo. Rob, let me know if you have questions. Christian On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 07:54 AM, Massimo Foti wrote: I am thinking of subscribing to Devnet Pro in the next month or so. I understand that i should get the upgrades to MX 2004 as part of Devnet Pro. One question that i am stuck on is, will the MX 2004 versions of the various studio products contain the items that are in DRKs prior to MX 2004? In other words, do i still need to buy DRKs 1-3 (since 4 is the current one) to get all the features (Flash components, Dreamweaver components, CFMX components) that are in available in those DRKs, or can i just wait for the 2004 versions of the products? You may try this: http://macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/faq/#1_11 Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Re: multiple user login
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 03:27 AM, Margrit John wrote: I would like to have two applications of Mozilla open on the same machine and login on each application with a seperate user. I just wrote about this last week in a post entitled Separating Sessions from Cookies: http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/003109.cfm Christian ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
